Governing the dead: sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Intro; 1 Introduction; Sovereignty and dead bodies; The chapters; Notes; References; 2 Governing the dead? Theoretical approaches; Fear of death; Dead bodies between bio- and necropolitics; Rites of separation and the sacralisation of authority; Dead agency; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part I: Containment and negotiation; 3 The proper funeral: death, landscape and power among the Duha Tuvinians of northern Mongolia

A socialist, moral and hygienic burialPolluted by socialism; Nested within the forest of dangers; The agency of the corpse; Lawless lives in the forest of laws; Notes; References; 4 Dead zone: pollution, contamination and the neglected dead in post-war Saigon; Thresholds and water margins: Binh Hung Hoa cemeteries; Dead zones: anxieties over matter out of place; Identifying the dead: names and images of the deceased; Dead zone: contamination and symbolic pollution; Zones of neglect and abjection; Notes; References

5 Travelling corpses: negotiating sovereign claims in Oaxacan post-mortem repatriationA death in the migrant community; The Mexican state's programme for repatriation of human remains; The body and the nation; Bureaucratic dead ends -- from LA to Oaxaca; The corpse and the village of origin; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 6 Claiming the dead, defining the nation: contested narratives of the independence struggle in post conflict Timor-Leste; Introduction; Politics of the dead and the independence of Timor-Leste; The nation and the dead; Valorising the dead, narrating the nation

Summoning the dead, continuing the struggleCollecting the dead, demanding recognition; Discussion; Notes; References; 7 Remaking the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe; Introduction; Context: the politics of the dead in Zimbabwe; The Chibondo exhumations; Too 'fresh', 'intact', fleshy, leaky and stinky?; The torque of materiality and the excessive potentiality of human remains; The politics of uncertainty; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: Transgression

8 Governing the disappeared-living and the disappeared-dead: the violent pursuit of cultural sovereignty during authoritarian rule in ArgentinaCultural war and the process of national reorganisation; Conquering bodies and minds; The predicament of the disappeared-living; The return of the disappeared-dead; Conclusion; References; 9 Dangerous corpses in Mexico's drug war; The story of Beltr�an Leyva's corpse; The story of the marine's corpse; Sovereign bodies and the will to violence; The substance of dead bodies; The 'force' of forgotten bones; Concluding remarks; Notes; References

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analysis of the struggles over 'proper burials'; the repatriation of dead migrants; abandoned cemeteries; exhumations; 'feminicide'; the protection of dead drug-lords; and the disappeared dead. Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume sugges.

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